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StarLight Grants Windsor Girl Shopping Dream

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Zoe Dudzianiec, 4, suffers from a rare bone marrow failure disorder.


A four-year-old Windsor girl with a rare bone marrow failure disorder received a once-in-a-lifetime experience early Thursday morning.

Thanks to the StarLight Children's Foundation Canada, Zoe Dudzianiec got a three-minute dash at Toys R Us in Windsor, where she grabbed whatever toy her heart desired.

Zoe was diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan Anemia when she was less than a day old.

Her body doesn't produce enough red blood cells, so she has to undergo a blood transfusion every 10 days.

To date, she has had 160 blood transfusions.

"She gets lots of pokes, lots of needles," says Zoe's mom Heidi Dudzianiec.  "At night she has a 12 and a half hour infusion that runs to keep the iron down so her organs don't fail, so Zoe gets a lot of trauma to her so this is something to keep her happy, I guess it makes up for all the trauma."

About 800 people around the world have Diamond-Blackfan Anemia.


 

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